The veteran actor reflects on the abrupt final curtain that fell on 'A Soldier's Play' five performances ahead of schedule when the coronavirus pandemic put out the lights on Broadway last week
Just about any actor who has done a three-month run of a Broadway play will tell you that the final performance invariably is an emotional experience — often for the audience as much as the cast — as company members who have formed close bonds prepare to go their separate ways, shedding characters that have become like second skins.
The tight-knit company, directed by Kenny Leon, played their regular Wednesday evening show on March 11 to a capacity audience in an acclaimed production that had continued to sell out even as coronavirus concerns were mounting.
Some people didn't even get that. Emotionally, physically, psychically, when you've worked for months and months, you've relocated, you've left your family, you're working on this goal to get the show up, I can't imagine the turmoil. Let alone that there's a real threat to audience members, crew, actors. No one wants to get sick. You don't know whose health is compromised and who's at a greater risk. That's really the crux of this whole thing.
This was a 12-person, all-male ensemble cast in an intensely charged drama heightened by its claustrophobic setting in an Army barracks — had you guys become a tight family unit?
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